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Awards & Buzzy Book News

The 2022 New American Voices award finalists are announced.

The 2022 Gordon Burn Prize shortlist is announced.

Locus Magazine covers the continuing lawsuit trial of the U.S. Department of Justice versus Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster.

CrimeReads has "The Best New Crime Novels of the Month" for August.

Vulture shares a list of “the Best Books of 2022 (So Far).”

NYT provides "6 Audiobooks to Listen to Now," 10 new book recommendations, and newly published this week.

New Title Bestsellers

Links for the week: NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers | NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers | USA Today Best-Selling Books

Fiction

The Last to Vanish by Megan Miranda (Scribner/ Marysue Rucci Books) appears on No. 11 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Nonfiction

The Big Lie: Election Chaos, Political Opportunism, and the State of American Politics After 2020 by Jonathan Lemire (Flatiron) debuts at No. 4 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Reviews

NPR reviews Acceptance: A Memoir by Emi Nietfeld (Penguin Pr.): “a memoir of coming to terms with the reality of a traumatic upbringing without reaching for redemption.” Also, How Fast Did T. rex Run? by David Hone (Princeton Univ.): “jam-packed with gripping descriptions of advances in dinosaur science, while also serving as a handbook for anyone wishing to identify central gaps in our knowledge.”

The Washington Post reviews Bookish People by Susan Coll (Harper Muse): "Set almost entirely inside an unnamed bookstore, the novel offers an insightful and entertaining look behind the shelves and into the lives of the people who stock them." 

NYT shares three short reviews on "memoirs of neglect, and hope" including: Acne: A Memoir by Laura Chinn (Hachette), Walking Gentry Home: A Memoir of My Foremothers in Verse by Alora Young (Hogarth), and Fruit Punch by Kendra Allen (Ecco: HarperCollins). 

The Los Angeles Times reviews Mothercare: On Obligation, Love, Death, and Ambivalence by Lynne Tillman (Soft Skull): “revelatory not only for its honest discussion of this thankless task, but also for Tillman’s candor about having her life drip away in service to someone she cares for more than she cares about.”

Book Marks has "5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week."

Briefly Noted

Jennette McCurdy discusses her new memoir, I’m Glad My Mom Died (S. & S.), and “reflects on her time as a child actor and on her troubled relationship with her mother” in a conversation with NYT. 

Alex Segura, author of Secret Identity (Flatiron), interviews fellow graphic novelist Ed Brubaker about his “reckless vision of Los Angeles” in his latest series installment The Ghost in You (Image Comics).

Lynne Tillman, Mothercare: On Obligation, Love, Death, and Ambivalence (Soft Skull), answers NYT's By the Book questionnaire.

Authors Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau (Del Rey; LJ starred review), and Lavie Tidhar explore "science fiction and horror by new, promising writers" for The Washington Post. 

NYT's Inside the Best-Seller List profiles Sarah J. Maas, author of House of Sky and Breath (Bloomsbury). 

Lit Hub shares books that display “the best uses of the first-person plural.”

Tor.com provides modern SFF books that retell Shakespeare’s plays.

Authors on Air

Michelle Tea talks about “crossing the threshold from ambivalence to wanting a baby” and her book Knocking Myself Up: A Memoir of My (In)Fertility (Dey Street) on the Thresholds podcast.

Brad Listi interviews Lynne Tillman, author of Mothercare: On Obligation, Love, Death, and Ambivalence (Soft Skull), about the “awe-inducing experience of witnessing her mother die” on the Otherppl podcast.

Gerd Gigerenzer, How to Stay Smart in a Smart World: Why Human Intelligence Still Beats Algorithms (MIT), discusses “what machines can’t learn” on the Keen On podcast. Also, a conversation with Dan Fesperman, author of Winter Work (Knopf), about "merging of fact and fiction in a Berlin haunted by a history of secrecy and lies."

Damian Barr features Jill Nadler telling stories and reading from her memoir Love from the Pink Palace: Memories of Love, Loss and Cabaret through the AIDS Crisis (Wildfire: Hachette) on the Literary Salon podcast.

CJ Hauser, The Crane Wife (Doubleday), chats about "how Katherine Hepburn taught her what love is" in a conversation on The Maris Review podcast.

Lucy Liu has been chosen as narrator for the audiobook version of Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng (Penguin Pr.; LJ starred review), according to The Hollywood Reporter. 

TomKat MeDiA, owned by Kat Taylor and Tom Steyer, has secured the rights to two nonfiction books including: Duff Wilson’s Fateful Harvest (Harper) and The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez by Aaron Bobrow-Strain (Farrar).

Lit Hub covers two new adapations of Edith Wharton's works.

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